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On the island nation of Steveland, my government would more closely resemble a Board of Directors than a traditional government. First, this island is MINE, and it will be run as I see fit, with limited input from others. I am not flexible on this: if you don't like it, get the hell off it. I would conduct government as a business, with follow-on funding of ANY government-funded program subject to annual review and adjustment. Any business venture my adminsitration entered into would have to at the very least break even in returns every year, or be cut.My Vice President In Charge of International Commerce (VPIC) would be embroiled in international negotiations for the procurement and importation of whatever necessities were needed on Steveland but not available domestically, as well as the marketing of whatever produce and industrial products Steveland may export. Oh, and we will speak English, and we will not have multi-lingual signage except at the Steveland International Airport, seaports, and hotels.My Vice President In Charge of National Finance (VPF) would work with the VPIC on import and export funding and revenue, and with the VPC (below) in securing sound financial footing and planning, assisting civilian industry proponents, and executing sound financial policies, in conjunction with the VPB (below). The VPF would be responsible for annually balancing the island's budget, or providing a surplus. Steveland will not operate on deficit spending and debt reliance.My Vice President In Charge of Security (VPS) would work domestically and internationally to provide, enhance, evaluate, and adjust Steveland's physical, electronic, and personal security and defensive concerns; to mount, provision, train, and to maintain my small, personal Army/Navy, and to provide physical secuity to my person and family. This person would be my 'SecDef', as it were. The VPS would be housed in the Central Fortress, the main 'government' building on the island. This hub would be located in the virtual geographic center of the island as a buffer against invasion. All armed Security personnel will have successfully completed training at a Certified Police Academy on the US mainland, regardless of where the island of Steveland is located. All citizens of Steveland not convicted of violent crime or crimes of passion whall be allowed to own firearms unless he should abuse the right. Furthermore, there shall be applied to citizens or authorized full-time residents, no gun-free zones anywhere on my island or in its littoral waters, except for at Steveland International Airport.My Vice President In Charge of the Currency (VPC) would be my treasurer. His primary function would be to mint and issue domestic currency, and to participate in global exchange and futures trading, and with protecting our national currency--gold. This office would also be located in (actually, UNDER) the Central Fortress.My Vice President In Charge of Internal Revenue (VPR) would be responsible for collecting income taxes on the Island of Steveland. He or she would enforce the island's official Flat-rate Income Tax Regulation, which would read, in its entirety: "All citizens and work-permitted residents, and all businesses, regardless of type or size, and regardless of personal or business income level, of Steveland will pay a flat, no deduction, no allowance 10% of all income reported on his annual tax return, upon penalty of prison or expulsion from Steveland." Persons/businesses would be permitted to pay by payroll deduction, quarterly business revenue statement tax filing, or as an annual lump sum, in gold.My Vice President In Charge of National Benefits (VPB) would be responsible for administering the island's benefits programs. These would include shareholder dividends returned to taxpayers (citizens only) based on annual national profits realized from the export sales of government-produced products, such as military hardware; provision for medical insurance coverage for taxpayers (at national group cost); and distribution of post-retirement annuitiy payments. This person would also be responsible for administering, upon Board approval, personal assistance, of various financial parameters, to those individuals who fit a very narrow, each-case-approved, means-versus-needs-tested evaluation. The island's government would operate end-of-life care centers (nursing homes), facilities of the highest order with weekly inspections for compliance with health-care facility standards. All persons who receive government assistance on Steveland Island will--WILL--unequivocally and inarguably pee in a cup at least once and, at random, sometimes 2X every month. No money for druggies or alkies, and that is graven in stone here.My Vice President In Charge of Immigration (VPI) would be responsible for implementing and enforcing Steveland's immigration policy. This policy would be very simple, and should be easily enforceable, seeing as we're an island here and you can't tunnel under a fence. Immigrants are received and housed in an Immigrant Evaluation Facility, quarantined from the island's public areas until such time as they pass legal background and medical screening and innoculations for such health threats as may exist on the island. For most immigrants, this period should last about a week, maybe 2, during which time, pending immigrants shall be fed 3 meals a day, receive all routine medical attention necessary (no heart-lung transplants), and have access to all manners of communication and entertainment. Any immigrant for whom legal background data cannot be verified or obtained will be refused entry to Steveland for permanent residence along with all such potential immigrants whose backgrounds include behavior detrimental to Steveland Island's citizens. But even a jail sentence or time served won't necessarily prevent one entry to Stevland. Immigrants who have non-violent, clean legal backgrounds, and clear health assessments will be admitted and may apply to become citizens. There will be no charge for any step of the immigration process. Business visitors and vacationers will not have to undergo this process, only immigrants.My Vice President In Charge of Public Education (VPPE) would be responsible for ensuring that all citizen children from the age of 6 attend free public schools. These schools would be operated in a way similar to the Horace Mann model, minus any religious or social instruction. On my island, it will never be the domain if the government to dictate what is religiously or socially accetable--those are the domain of parents. My schools will teach math, languages, sciences and arts (but without any attempt to influence children with interpretations of 'art'), and no student regardless of ethnicity or previous nationality shall have to do any more ro any less work than any other student nor will he be graded on his efforts any differently. No school shall administer medication of its own prescription without parental approval, but shall take no action against any student for taking medication prescribed to him by his family physician while at school.My Vice President In Charge of Corrections (VPCC) would be responsible for operating and maintaining the island's single prison. This person would work closely with the VPS. Most of his duties would comprise of deportation of non-citizen residents and humane detention of citizen prisoners.My Vice President In Charge of Public Referendum (VPPR) would be responsible for responding to concerns voiced by citizens, consulting with those in his department to arrive at properly-crafted referendii for public vote. Public sentiment as reflected in the public vote would be presented to the Board for final disposition. This is MY island, remember, so I don't necessarily HAVE to do what the public wants...but I'll consider it. This person himself would have no vote on any issue, either at referendum or in the boardroom--enforced neutrality.My Vice President In Charge of Public Utilities (VPU) would be responsible for the obvious.My Vice President In Charge of Transportation (VPT) will be responsible for designing roadways, seaports, and airports, and for maintaining them, and for managing their maintenance in a cost-effective manner. This person would be responsible for fuels testing, pump delivery testing, tire disposal programs, government-owned vehicles and their maintennance, and import and export tracing of new and used automobiles, parts, and components.My Vice President In Charge of Natural Resources (VPNR) would be responsible for the careful stewardship of my island's resources. I am no Cali tree hugger, but I love outdoors and nature, and small tropical islands need protection from any practice that would cause their stasis to decay. This person will also be responsible for oversight of agricultural practices.My Vice President In Charge of Equality (VPE) would be responsible for ensuring that no practice of discrimination occured in business dealings of any type--including employer/employee, nor in any government setting, nor in any civilian setting, but with no 'quota' system. This person will also be responsible for establishing and administering worker-safety policies, within limits set by me. The VPE would work closely with the Personnel Department to develop the rules of job vacancy announcment and position hiring for all jobs, public and private. One inflexible rule: no photo, name, or physical or vital description of any job applicant shall appear on his application; he will be given a reference number in place of his name to enter electronically on the application--unless gender or physical condition is vital for the position, no hiring manager shall have any information to judge any applicant by other than competency for the duties of the position. There is no fairer way to fill a vacancy. If you have been relying on some sort of govenrment equalization for you to get a job in your old country, then you're going to have to get better to get one here. WE only want qualified people here.My island's Department of Judicial Dispensation would be responsible for trying civil and criminal cases, following established principles of law from the United States--it's where I'm from, it's my island, so it's my rules. I would employ only Justices who had exhibited strict compliance with Constitutional construction in his/her time on the American bench. The Judicial Department would have the same power over the rich and powerful as it has over the poor and downtrodden. 'Justice' cannot be bought on Steveland because all meetings between lawyers by law must take place inside the courthouse in the Central Fortress, in the main court room, on-camera and recorded. No justice would ever be appointed or hired to a life-time position. All justices will sit the bench no more than 5 years maximum, and any Justice whose ruling in essence establishes new law would be immediately fired and his ruling vacated. Justices, and for that matter, all other Steveland offical employees, will be as subject to their own rulings and every other law as all other citizens of Steveland.My island's Department of Personnel Affairs will be responsible for hiring most official employees, from garbage man to Executive Assistant, excepting Board VPs and Court Justices--I'll hire them personally. My island, my rules. When I die or leave, the Board will select my successor from among their ranks, and then it will be his island, his rules.There will be no EPA or NSA, no judiciary legislation, no Department of Hurt Feelings, no Department of Fairness, no Department of You Can't Say That, no Department of Share With the Bums, no Department of What's Yours Is Mine, no Department of You Can't Drive That, and no Harry Reid and no Nancy Pelosi. This probably isn't complete, but it's already about 90% more rules than I ever want put on me, and I'd be doing it to myself.I don't care if you're white, black, brown, yellow, or red, gay or straight, male or female, childless or fruited, single or married, rich or poor, landed or renter, if you can live by the rules I'd set up, then bring your ass on.Margaritas and Rum Runners on the Main Beach every day starting at 5 PM, 3-drink minimum, but, hey, I'm buying, so, you know...